The Aramis system would have allowed commuters to order tiny individual subway cars, seating only 5 to 10 passengers, to stations near their homes; the lightweight compartments, feeding from branch lines onto a central track, would have assembled into trainlike lines as they approached the center of Paris.
Later in the same skit, he turns these digital assistants into surprisingly versatile performers in their own right, as photos and videos his character has taken of himself run riot across their slick little screens, addling this commuter's ordered mind in a fun bit of surrealist trompe l'oeil.
The night of his murder, Aibileen Clark (in a star turn by Viola Davis) is shown with another black commuter being ordered off the bus home, the driver calling them by the N-word, because something terrible has happened.
20 The study aimed at increasing knowledge and understanding of barriers to accessing HCT services within the commuter population in order to inform policy decisions and intervention strategies at the district levels targeting commuter populations to enhance uptake of HCT services.
Commuters are being ordered to keep their phones on silent mode and can't talk on the phone while in transit.
Austria, too, is getting in on the act, as the mayor of Vienna has started ordering commuters on the public trains to silence their cell phones or walk.
It is a nation with its own semi-permanent citizenry, of interstate truckers and intrastate commuters, a population that orders its lives and its livelihood almost exclusively around one span of asphalt.
The ads offer an invitation for commuters to place coffee orders and pay ahead for their caffeine fix, with references to the specific station.
AMR's American Eagle commuter airline also ordered six regional jets from Embraer of Brazil for delivery in 2002.
ON THE first day of this week's national strike, in the township of Kuwadzana, soldiers went from door to door, pulling strikers out of their homes, force-marching them to the commuter train, and ordering them to go to work.
